 Inequality, educational choice, and public school quality in income‐mixing communitiesPost-Print from HAL Abstract: Why, in some urban communities, do rich and poor households cohabit while, in others, we observe sorting by income? Does income inequality impact residential choices and community segregation? To answer these questions, I develop a two‐community general equilibrium framework of school quality, residential choice, and tax decision with probabilistic voting. The model predicts that an equilibrium with income mixing in which households segregate across public schools and low‐ and high‐income households choose to live in the same community might emerge in highly unequal societies. In this particular equilibrium, income‐mixing communities perform lower public school quality than communities populated by middle‐income households. The effect of inequality on the quality of public schooling in the income‐mixing community is ambiguous and depends on the relative endowments of private goods, such as housing, in the two communities. Keywords: [No; keyword; available] (search for similar items in EconPapers) Published in Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2018, 20 (6), pp.914-943. ⟨10.1111/jpet.12336⟩ There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01897655 DOI: 10.1111/jpet.12336 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Post-Print from HAL |
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